text: * 2012 January — IBM creates 9 nm carbon nanotube transistor that outperforms silicon.
  ** January – Research team at Rice University announce developing a new wet-spun nanotech fiber. The new fiber is made with an industrial scalable process. The fibers reported in Science have about 10 times the tensile strength and electrical and thermal conductivity of the best previously reported wet-spun CNT fibers.
  ** September – Researchers build a carbon nanotube computer.